Coupeville Sports

   Dane Lucero, seen in an earlier game, threw a complete game and drilled three hits Wednesday as Coupeville rolled to a 12-2 win. (John Fisken photo)

It was the perfect cap to the league season.

With nine of 14 players rapping out a hit Wednesday, the Coupeville High School baseball squad rolled host Port Townsend 12-2 to claim its fourth win in the past five games.

The victory lifts the Wolves to 6-3 in Olympic League play, 11-8 overall.

CHS finishes second behind Klahowya (8-1, 10-5) and well ahead of Chimacum (3-5, 5-7) and Port Townsend (0-8, 0-13), who still have a game to play against each other.

The Wolves wrap the regular season Thursday with a trip to Langley to face non-conference foe South Whidbey (4 PM), before opening the playoffs with a home game May 9 against Bellevue Christian.

While everyone chipped in Wednesday, sophomore hurler Dane Lucero was the focal point, tossing a complete game and giving up no earned runs while using just 60 pitches.

He greatly aided his cause at the plate, going 3-3 with two doubles, a single and a walk.

Taylor Consford and Clay Reilly backed Lucero up with two hits apiece (Reilly crunched a double), while Hunter Smith, Aiden Crimmins, Joey Lippo, Kory Score, Nick Etzell and Matt Hilborn each added a base-knock.

Coupeville put the game away early, jumping out to a 7-0 lead after an inning and a half of play and never looked back.

The game was cracked open with a five-run second inning, a rally that started with two outs and no one on base.

After the RedHawks whiffed the first two Wolves, CHS responded with a string of hits, a couple of walks and a timely error off of a shot bashed by Lippo.

That plated two, coming on the heels of a two-run single from Consford and an RBI hit by Reilly.

Port Townsend scraped out two runs of its own in the second, but Coupeville put the hammer down, scoring three in the fourth and another two in the fifth to end the game early thanks to the mercy rule.

In the fourth, the Wolves got back-to-back RBI doubles from Lucero and Reilly, before Lippo slapped a hit to plate another run.

Lucero put Coupeville over the top in the fifth with his final hit, a two-run single.